Editor, Gazette-Journal:

I have lived in Gloucester County for almost 20 years and feel that I have a responsibility to try to support and improve our community any way that I can. In doing this I would like to express my wholehearted support for Darrell Warren for sheriff.

I am very pleased that Sheriff Warren graduated as I did from the FBI Academy at Quantico, Va., he as a member of the FBI National Academy and I as a Special Agent of the FBI where I served for over 30 years including the position of Assistant Director at the time of my retirement. I know the types of training that Sheriff Warren received at the Academy as well as in other law enforcement training sessions and also know that he is eminently qualified as a leader in law enforcement.

It takes years of education, training and experience to effectively manage a department as large as the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office. Management not only involves law enforcement issues but budgetary, personnel and adm...